diff --git a/staticlibs/device/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/NetlinkMessage.java b/staticlibs/device/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/NetlinkMessage.java
index a216752..9e1e26e 100644
--- a/staticlibs/device/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/NetlinkMessage.java
+++ b/staticlibs/device/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/NetlinkMessage.java
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
             return null;
         }
 
-        int payloadLength = NetlinkConstants.alignedLengthOf(nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len);
-        payloadLength -= StructNlMsgHdr.STRUCT_SIZE;
+        final int messageLength = NetlinkConstants.alignedLengthOf(nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len);
+        final int payloadLength = messageLength - StructNlMsgHdr.STRUCT_SIZE;
         if (payloadLength < 0 || payloadLength > byteBuffer.remaining()) {
             // Malformed message or runt buffer.  Pretend the buffer was consumed.
             byteBuffer.position(byteBuffer.limit());
@@ -68,15 +68,22 @@
         // Netlink family messages. The netlink family is required. Note that the reason for using
         // if-statement is that switch-case can't be used because the OsConstants.NETLINK_* are
         // not constant.
+        final NetlinkMessage parsed;
         if (nlFamily == OsConstants.NETLINK_ROUTE) {
-            return parseRtMessage(nlmsghdr, byteBuffer);
+            parsed = parseRtMessage(nlmsghdr, byteBuffer);
         } else if (nlFamily == OsConstants.NETLINK_INET_DIAG) {
-            return parseInetDiagMessage(nlmsghdr, byteBuffer);
+            parsed = parseInetDiagMessage(nlmsghdr, byteBuffer);
         } else if (nlFamily == OsConstants.NETLINK_NETFILTER) {
-            return parseNfMessage(nlmsghdr, byteBuffer);
+            parsed = parseNfMessage(nlmsghdr, byteBuffer);
+        } else {
+            parsed = null;
         }
 
-        return null;
+        // Advance to the end of the message, regardless of whether the parsing code consumed
+        // all of it or not.
+        byteBuffer.position(startPosition + messageLength);
+
+        return parsed;
     }
 
     @NonNull
diff --git a/staticlibs/tests/unit/src/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/RtNetlinkRouteMessageTest.java b/staticlibs/tests/unit/src/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/RtNetlinkRouteMessageTest.java
index 93b9894..55cfd50 100644
--- a/staticlibs/tests/unit/src/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/RtNetlinkRouteMessageTest.java
+++ b/staticlibs/tests/unit/src/com/android/net/module/util/netlink/RtNetlinkRouteMessageTest.java
@@ -195,11 +195,8 @@
 
         // Try to parse the RTM_NEWADDR message.
         msg = NetlinkMessage.parse(byteBuffer, NETLINK_ROUTE);
-        // The current parse code does not advance to the end of the message if the
-        // entire message wasn't consumed, then the remaining attributes in the
-        // RTM_NEWROUTE message will be considered as another new rtm netlink message,
-        // that will return null.
-        assertNull(msg);
+        assertNotNull(msg);
+        assertTrue(msg instanceof RtNetlinkAddressMessage);
     }
 
     @Test